Miss Fortune Cookie

When David Douglas puts his family-owned Chinese restaurant on the auction

block, his rebellious younger daughter, Sue, recruits the help of Will, the restaurant

manager, to keep her grandmother from being forced from the restaurant and

sent to a retirement home.

The only way for Sue to conjure up millions of dollars in a few weeks is to set

up a bogus on-line company to enter the auction in a bidding war with the giant

corporation intent on buying the restaurant’s property.

To raise the seed money to join the auction, Sue begins writing fortune cookie

messages for her friends. When all of the messages come true, hundreds of fortune

seekers descend on the restaurant all wanting to have their fortunes told. Under

intense pressure, Sue claims she’s not the fortune teller, just the transcriber. That

fabrication doesn’t go well when desperate people conclude that Sue’s grandmother

must be the real fortune teller.

Sue’s hesitant accomplice, Will, the restaurant manager, is the voice of reason and

caution, but he’s no match for Sue’s determination to build a new restaurant and

save Grandma. Although Sue’s heart is in the right place, her schemes result in

constant chaos and misfortune.